Released as a companion set to The British Hit Singles (4CD Set GVC4001) - January 1940 - December 1949 The Number 1 Hits Of The 1940s and part of a project based around the newly published 'The British Hit Singles' (book) - The Missing Charts. A 300 page hardback book listing the week by week Top 30 charts from January 1940 - October 1952. So here are gathered 108 of the number one best selling records of the 1950s